Jeans may just be the most popular pants in the world, which makes the best jean brands, well, kind of a big deal. The downside to that degree of popularity, though, is the paralysis of choice liable to plague even the most veteran denimhead when the time comes to actually buy a pair.
That’s where we come in. If we could send an envoy from the GQ Recommends squad to wander the digital wastelands with you, we would. In lieu of that, though, we went deep on the jean brands that never fail to steer us in the right direction—from the true-blue artisanal specialists to the mass-market reliables—curing our choice paralysis in the process.